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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Extboot Option ROM rewritten in C - v3
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:24:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480892E9.9000907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cde8bff0804180400p73d268e4y34ba48d3c2b6d533@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Anh Quynh wrote:
> 
> Actually, this code is left from the original code of Anthony, and it
> seems he took it from qemu 0.8 version.
> 
> Anthony, may you explain why you want to hijact the linux boot process
> here? If I understand correctly, we can just let the original int19
> execute, and if linux boot is desired, it would work in normal way. So
> why you want to do this?
> 

I'm having exactly the *opposite* question... why does extboot have code 
to hook int 13h?

	-hpa

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17  1:30 Extboot Option ROM rewritten in C - v3 Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-17  5:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 10:57   ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-17  6:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 11:00   ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-18 12:21     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 13:19       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 12:24     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-18 13:19     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 13:31       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 13:56       ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-18 14:51         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 14:50           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 15:02           ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-18 15:19             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-17  7:36 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-04-18 11:01   ` Nguyen Anh Quynh

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